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A writer walks around London a year after her mother's death, remembering a sharp, funny woman who never let disability slow her down, in a novel that insists it is not a memoir.
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Maame
Maddie Wright, twenty-five, works a job she hates in London and looks after her father, who has Parkinson's, while her mother spends most of the year in Ghana, until a chance to move out gives her a life of her own.
The Friend
When her longtime friend and mentor dies, a writer in New York inherits his enormous Great Dane, Apollo, and the dog, grieving too, moves into her small rent-stabilised apartment.
The Changeling
Kogito Choko, an ageing novelist, listens night after night to the tapes left by his brother-in-law, a famous film director who has jumped from a building, and tries to understand why.
Heft
Arthur Opp, a former professor too heavy to leave his Brooklyn brownstone, gets a call from a former student he has loved from afar for decades, and her teenage son, a baseball talent in Yonkers, becomes the other half of the story.
Writers & Lovers
In the summer of 1997, Casey Peabody, thirty-one, grieving her mother, deep in debt and waiting tables in Massachusetts while she works on the novel she has been writing for six years, finds herself torn between two very different writers.
The Cactus
Susan Green, forty-five, likes her London life tidy and her feelings out of view, until she finds herself pregnant just as her mother dies and leaves the family house to her feckless younger brother.
The Last Samurai
Sibylla, an American single mother in London, raises her gifted son Ludo on Greek, Japanese and Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and refuses to tell him who his father is.
Elena Knows
An Argentine woman with Parkinson's disease sets out across Buenos Aires to solve what she insists cannot be her daughter's suicide.
Blue Sisters
A year after their sister Nicky's death, the three remaining Blue sisters, a lawyer in London, a boxer in Los Angeles and a model in Paris, come back to New York to stop their parents selling the family apartment.
Hollywood
Bukowski's semi-autobiographical account of surviving Hollywood while his novel Barfly becomes a movie.
The Finkler Question
Julian Treslove, a former BBC producer, is mugged on his way home from dinner with two old friends, both Jewish, and becomes convinced his attacker took him for a Jew.
Sex and Rage
Jacaranda Leven, a surfer and party girl who drifts through Los Angeles at the end of the 1970s, starts writing seriously and moves to New York, and has to decide what she will give up to keep going.